Date:	Saturday 20 January 1945
Time:	10:30
Type:	Hawker Typhoon Mk IB
Owner/operator:	257 (Burma) Sqn RAF
Registration:	PD598
MSN:	FM-T
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	near Dubbeldam, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland -   Netherlands
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	B.70 Antwerp/Deurne, Belgium
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Takeoff at 09:50 hrs for an armed recce operation to Leiden.
The aircraft iced up in cloud, the engine quit and caught fire, the pilot performed a successful emergency-landing but was captured. He was interned at Stalag Luft III - Sagan, Germany.

Pilot was J/91029 Pilot Officer William Bert Whitmore (RCAF)

257 Burma Squadron war time records from The National Archives UK
Personnel record of P/O Whitmore from RCAF Archives (118/438 Sqn records)
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T5139&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
https://aircrewremembered.com/ParadieArchiveDatabase/?q=whitmore&qand=257sqn&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact
https://aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=pd598&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

23 August 1944	MN492	257 (Burma) Sqn RAF	0	Llangennith Beach, Llangennith, Glamorgan, Wales		w/o
5 January 1945	PD454	257 (Burma) Sqn RAF	0	near B.78 Eindhoven Airfield, Noord-Brabant		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
17-Dec-2008 11:45	ASN archive	Added
30-Aug-2013 12:07	JINX	Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Phase, Source, Narrative]
04-Mar-2015 15:13	H.Shaft	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator]
18-Jan-2020 20:03	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Cn, Total fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
18-Jan-2020 21:57	TigerTimon	Updated [Operator]
03-Sep-2021 01:08	tachel	Updated [Narrative]
18-Dec-2023 20:41	tachel	Updated [Time, Source, Narrative]
21-Jan-2024 20:14	tachel	Updated [Narrative]